February 2012
1 post
Green's Screens
from: http://www.fandor.com/blog/?p=11074
Brent Green’s shorts bear the stamp of quiet annihilation; his sculpture on display at the Sundance Film Festival 2012 was, like his films, a deceptively grand project.
By Sean Uyehara
Brent Green is attracted to The Great Work. Not, the great work of art that’s canonized, polished and hits every note with aesthetic purity. I mean the great work of...
January 2012
14 posts
I wrote some stuff on Brent Green, Zellners and... →
Mad genius: Brent Green’s To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given
Looking like a hybrid of odd appliance and futuristic earth art, Brent Green’s newest sculpture, To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given (with help from Stevie Smith and Nikita Khrushchev), consists of nine hacked LCD screens arranged on the three separate planes of display. Circling the piece, one sees luminescent windows suspended in...
WatchThe craziest karaoke situation I have ever seen. I happened upon this activity in Berlin. Thousands of people come and attend to performances. Here we have a German version of “My Way” and raucous applause. We need something like this in SF.
Robots to keep people company as they enter their... →
Not sure which is more alarming and creepy: the robot baby designed to keep the elderly from being depressed because no one will talk to them; or the results you get if you do a video search for...
Paula Deen Has Diabetes →
There are so many issues here, but the main one to my mind is the acceptance of the narrative — if you over consume, you can fix it later. Sounds like our country’s mantra! Destroy now, fix later! I’m so pissed off. I am going to drink my third cup of coffee, put on my child-labor-produced clothing and turn on all the lights now.
Oh man, Led Zeppelin ripped off all those songs?? →
My date showed me her hands. I thought they were bigger than mine. We held them up to each other and sure enough her hands were bigger. She looked me directly in the eyes with a sort of wicked smile and said, “How does that make you feel?” It was pretty great and I had a flash of us becoming a lot closer. When the date was over I imagined all of the ways that I could disappoint her.
My friend told me about how her brother is a terrible hound and is going through some things. He was at her house and says, “ay, your roommate is hot.” And, she says, “dude, you say that about all of my friends. And, you have a new fiancée. And, She’s pregnant. What the hell?” And, he shrugs and says sheepishly, “It’s Christmas.”
